If the world won’t take the refugees, then 6-year-old Alex will. At least, he has offered to take in one Syrian, the child photographed last month while he sat in the back of an ambulance, his head dusty and bloodied after a bomb hit his family’s home. Alex wrote to President Obama, ‘Do you remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria? Can you please go get him and bring him to my home?’ Obama read the note recently at the UN leaders’ summit on refugees, and posted it online. Obama chided world leaders for not doing enough to help refugees, calling the global refugee crisis ‘one of the most urgent tests of our time.’ 65 million people are displaced from their homes; most of them come from countries of great poverty, or as in Syria’s case, that have experienced prolonged war. For a transcript of the letter, click the ‘More’ button.